A bill framed for preserving the
purity of Parliament was likewise abused, and no less than 63 seats were
vacated by their holders having received nominal offices."
The signs of the times are most favorable to the success of the Irish
Liberator. The tremendous power of the English political unions is
beginning to develop itself in favor of Ireland. A deep sympathy is
evinced for her sufferings, and a general determination to espouse her
cause. Brute force cannot put down the peaceable and legal agitation of
the question of her rights and interests. The spirit of the age forbids
it. The agitation will go on, for it is spreading among men who, to use
the words of the eloquent Shiel, while looking out upon the ocean, and
gazing upon the shore, which Nature has guarded with so many of her
bulwarks, can hear the language of Repeal muttered in the dashing of the
very waves which separate them from Great Britain by a barrier of God's
own creation. Another bloodless victory, we trust, awaits O'Connell,--a
victory worthy of his heart and intellect, unstained by one drop of human
blood, unmoistened by a solitary tear.
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